Needed: Emergency Mutual Aid for the Painter of This Piece

Fellow StimpunkStimpunk combines “stimming” + “punk” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to neurotypicalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. Instead of hiding our stims, we Jasmine is a neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”NEURODIVERSITY: SOME BASIC TERMS & DEFINITIONS Neurodivergent is quite artist and mother who helps her son deliver careCare work makes all other work possible. Putting care—not just care work, but care—at the center of our economy, our politics, is to orient ourselves around our interdependence. Care is packages to hospitalized and chronically ill people.

My son's 11 & his philanthropy made the news tonight. I'm so, so proud of him. He cares so much about other people & giving back❤️ #KindnessMatters pic.twitter.com/dfTFLpJ7kG
— Jas (@jasdwrites) November 15, 2021

StimpunksStimpunk combines “stimming” + “punk” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to neurotypicalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. Instead of hiding our stims, we Foundation and the family behind it only have so much budget, and we are encumbered by the laws against dealing to friends or family that apply to private family foundations. So, we’ll sometimes ask you to directly help out someone dear to us.

Send whatever you can to Jasmine to help her repair her car so she can work and take her son to school. Any amount helps.

CashApp: $Jasdwrites

Venmo: jasmine-slater-10

Crowdfund: gofund.me/8c15f8be

Illustrated portrait of Alice Wong and Ashanti Fortson, with a purple, pink, mauve, and blue color palette. Wong is an Asian American woman wearing a dark blue jacket and a pink-and-lavender chevron-patterned scarf, as well as a mask over her nose with a tube for her Bi-Pap machine. Fortson is an Afro-Mexican person wearing light yellow star earrings, large and round pink glasses, and a dark blue knit shawl with accents in bright pink. Clouds swirl in front of the figures, and stars are visible in the night sky behind them. Shooting stars with bright pink trails are scattered throughout the portrait. Near the bottom of the image, embellished text reads “Alice and Ashanti,” and the text “#CommunityAsHome” is underneath.

Jasmine is working on a strikingly composed hair pride piece and a piece inspired by Nina Simone. Buy her some room to breathe, and create, and feel good.

In a world & societies where autisticAutistic ways of being are human neurological variants that can not be understood without the social model of disability.If you are wondering whether you are Autistic, spend time amongst Autistic people, online and offline. If, neurodivergent and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself lives are less valued and systemically gaslighted, abused and classed as less than, it is absolutely vital to keep speaking not just our truthJustice, equality, fairness, mercy, longsuffering, Work, Passion, knowledge, and above all else, Truth. Those are my primary emotions.Very Grand Emotions: How Autistics and Neurotypicals Experience Emotions Differently » NeuroClastic https://youtu.be/uPRa6G2a48E for ourselves as individuals, but to platform and amplify each other.
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🚨🚨Urgent Mutual Aid Request

I'm a single neurodivergent mother & artist #crowdfunding for medication, urgent car repairs & rent.

Please share https://t.co/yaAkC78ziK #MutualAidRequest #settlersaturday #Helpfolkslive2022 #BlackLivesMatter #artist #gofundme pic.twitter.com/JIB77wnrtL
— Jas (@jasdwrites) August 23, 2022

Starting a #MutualAidThread for indigenous, queerBeing queer means constantly questioning what's considered "normal" and why that norm gets privileged over other ways of being. It means criticizing who sets these norms and recognizing the privilege, bipoc, neurodivergent or any comrades in need. Drop your paylinks in the thread & mutuals RT & help if you can. I'll start.

I'm a bipoc neurodivergent mother in need of urgent aid as I need medication, rent/bills & car repairs pic.twitter.com/Cpl8YRejWc
— Jas (@jasdwrites) August 24, 2022

I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Can you see
You’d agree
Everybody
Should be free
(Because if we ain’t, we’re murderers)

--I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free by Nina Simone

One of the most punkEverything that was normally supposed to be hidden was brought to the front.Punk subculture - Wikipedia The First Rule of Punk: Be Yourself Our Second Rule of Punk: Reframe The angst people in history is Nina Simone.
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She was neurodivergent and did her best work as an activist completely unaware she was bipolarI call it burning these days because that’s what it feels like: like there’s an idea inside me burning its way out. But when I was younger, I called it and suffering from PTSDPeople who enter services are frequently society’s most vulnerable—people who have experienced extensive trauma, adversity, abuse, and oppression throughout their lives. At the same time, I struggle with the word. As such, the disability communityWhat I have always been hoping to accomplish is the creation of community.Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-First-Person-Stories-Twenty-First-ebook/dp/B082ZQBL98/ https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-Adapted-Young-Adults-ebook/dp/B08VFT4R9T/ should embrace her as a savant in the wider sphere of neurodivergent people who demonstrate talent usually limited to the label autistic savant.
Nina Simone: Black Activist, Bipolar Savant | NOS Magazine

I sing from intelligence. I sing from letting them know that I know who they are and what they have done to my people around the world.

That’s not anger. Anger has its place. Anger has fire, and fire moves things, but I sing from intelligence. I don’t want them to think that I don’t know who they are.
Nina Simone on BBC HARDtalk, 1999

The Art of Jasmine Slater Accompanied by Nina Simone

CashApp: $Jasdwrites

Venmo: jasmine-slater-10

Crowdfund: gofund.me/8c15f8be

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

As thanks for your help, whether you donate or amplify, we offer our gallery of sights, sounds, and words by our community of neurodivergent and disabled people.

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